Abstract

URBAN, Wayne Joseph. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.48, pp.121-138. ISSN 2236-3459 .  https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-3459/56900.

This essay profiles the history of the National Education Association of the United States of America. Founded in 1857, the association functioned as a national debating society for a small group of educational leaders for the rest of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, it experienced a wave of feminist opposition to the male leaders, the influence of progressive education, a surge of local emphasis, the challenge of trade unionism in the form of the American Federation of Teachers - AFT -, its own racial desegregation, and participation in the creation of the United States Department of Education. Recently, it has been attacked from the political right, as a facilitator of an intellectually deficient public education system.

Keywords : School administrators; women teachers; trade unionists; desegregation; professional association; administrative progressivism.

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